Execution environmente and benchmarks for the study of applications' scheduling on clusters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3719 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 204-213

  Wong, Adam K L ^a   Goscinski, Andrzej M ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MIDDLEWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

NON-DEDICATED CLUSTER; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; SEQUENTIAL BENCHMARK APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33646386146     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11564621_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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